(n.) A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut.
Example Sentences:
(1) A couple of years ago a dilapidated little cinema called Shama was blown up in Peshawar.
(2) As the rescue workers went through the rubble of Shama cinema, young, slick, newly elected politicians sat in front of TV cameras and shook their heads: “Who can condone such a barbaric attack?
(3) She and her sister, Shama, studied in France, and created their first collection in 1985.
(4) • Report dated Thursday, May 4 1916 Edward Casey, an Irish Cockney, on his time in Ireland Walking down this small town [Kilmallock in County Limerick] with narrow streets, in uniform, with Shamas who towered over me, was an experience that still remains in my mind.
(5) This policy and set of practices by the FBI is part of a much broader set of policies that reflect overpolicing in Muslim-American communities,” said Diala Shamas, one of the lawyers for the four plaintiffs.
Shaman
Definition:
(n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
(2) The shaman is a specialist in producing and managing altered states of consciousness.
(3) • Mayan shamans took part in a ceremony to mark the end of the Mayan cycle and the start of the new age in the ancient Mayan site of Tikal, 350 miles (560km) north of Guatemala City.
(4) Accessible to non-specialists, the system conveyed by these recitations acts to validate shamanic intervention as a significant and intelligible activity.
(5) Shamans themselves have adapted their politics, diagnoses and symbolic actions to an increasingly cold social climate.
(6) This discussion reveals those aspects of the shaman's experience that render her more, rather than less, like those she treats and suggests a process whereby the shared reality of shaman and client is realized in lived experiences, rituals, and conversations.
(7) Psychotherapeutic management of a potential spirit medium (shaman) in a modern University Hospital setting in Malaysia is described.
(8) Using their oral texts, shamans effectively reproduce worlds that require shamanic interventions.
(9) I went to Peru to Machu Picchu and did ancient shamanic ceremonies to cleanse myself after I eventually realised why I couldn’t let her go.
(10) The pharmacological effects of the alkaloid on the human body are shown to have informed shamanic therapeutic practices and beliefs.
(11) This time, the insecure, anxious Howard Moon (Barratt) and the self-assured, narcissistic Vince Noir (Fielding) work in a second-hand shop owned by their shaman friend Naboo (played by Michael Fielding).
(12) However, the shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) can be differentiated physiologically from possession trance states.
(13) Within anthropology, investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have followed some of the prescriptive problems inherited from the discipline of psychology, coloring the assumptions and perspectives of students of shamanism.
(14) In the postshamanic culture derivatives of shamanism and non-inspirational healers (naturalists) are active.
(15) The shaman may also be medically active when his expert knowledge of the supernatural disease agents is called for.
(16) Differences included more complex theories about illness, greater number of folk practitioner types and greater differentiation of the shaman role (i.e.
(17) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
(18) It is then possible to differentiate between the shaman as primarily the mediator between the supernatural powers and man, and the medicine-man as primarily the curer of diseases through traditional techniques.
(19) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(20) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.